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This document contains an exercise asking the student to write paraphrases of 4 passages. The passages discuss: 1) How the Antarctic influences global climate and how human activity now threatens its fragile climate regulating system. 2) How bicycle helmets can reduce the risk of head injuries from accidents by 85% and that head injuries cause the majority of bicycling fatalities, many among school-aged children. 3) How a Matisse painting depicts the atmosphere of a gateway in Tangier through subtle uses of color. 4) How the Sears Tower is the greatest skyscraper achievement so far but engineers continue working to design even taller buildings, with some proposals as high as half a mile.

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Backup of Paraphrasing Exercise

This document contains an exercise asking the student to write paraphrases of 4 passages. The passages discuss: 1) How the Antarctic influences global climate and how human activity now threatens its fragile climate regulating system. 2) How bicycle helmets can reduce the risk of head injuries from accidents by 85% and that head injuries cause the majority of bicycling fatalities, many among school-aged children. 3) How a Matisse painting depicts the atmosphere of a gateway in Tangier through subtle uses of color. 4) How the Sears Tower is the greatest skyscraper achievement so far but engineers continue working to design even taller buildings, with some proposals as high as half a mile.

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Name: _____________________________ Track: _____________ Date _________

Exercise 1 (Paraphrasing)
Directions: Write a paraphrase of each of the following passages. (5 pts. each)

1. "The Antarctic is the vast source of cold on our planet, just as the sun is the source of our
heat, and it exerts tremendous control on our climate," [Jacques] Cousteau told the camera.
"The cold ocean water around Antarctica flows north to mix with warmer water from the
tropics, and its upwellings help to cool both the surface water and our atmosphere. Yet the
fragility of this regulating system is now threatened by human activity." From "Captain
Cousteau," Audubon (May 1990):17.

2. "Of the more than 1000 bicycling deaths each year, three-fourths are caused by head
injuries. Half of those killed are school-age children. One study concluded that wearing a bike
helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent. In an accident, a bike helmet absorbs
the shock and cushions the head." From "Bike Helmets: Unused Lifesavers," Consumer
Reports (May 1990): 348.

3. "Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic
of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the
smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate" depicts the well-known gateway
Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With
scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art
history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the
bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate." From Peter
Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

4. "While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so
far, it's unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world's tallest
building. The question is: Just how high can a building go? Structural engineer William
LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears
Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could p

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